Niceness It's The New Epidemic

Niceness

Being as nice as pie.

I'm not talking Mother Teresa nice.

I'm talking about  just being nice and such was the news report I saw on T.V the other day where someone shamelessly fat shamed a man who was dancing. His story went viral and he went to America where he had some amazing experiences. 

Every day simplicities can and do involve niceness take what I did the other day , when walking home I saw a school cardigan I checked the label and I recognised the name written on the label . I knew where they lived I knocked on the door no one was in so I posted it through the letter box. Not much in the scheme of things simple you might say but nice , these are the small and nice gestures that make the world go around and tick over smoothly.

Yesterday  I held the door open for someone but they didn't say thank you !. Tonight saw we going to get a shed load of sausages for rugby ! After we cleared Sainburys of all their sausage rolls I went into home base to get some paint for my ensuite . This is because I had to have my toilet replaced then the nasty carpet was cut into ... Any way when we were queueing up to pay for the paint another till became available so we moved to that . Trouble was that the lady in front of us made such a hullabaloo, we just said " no you go " to which she did . When she came to pay she couldn't find her payment card  despite rooting around for it and swearing blind she has had it . So she paid cash now if this was me not having my debit card the world would be ending and everyone would know it.

Then my husband spied a card on the till surface where she has previously been standing, so I went over and saw that the huffy puffy lady had left her card behind. I saw the card picked it up but the lady had left the store so I legged it out whereupon I found her loading her car and gave her card back to her. She thanked me but was not wildly enthusiastic , I'm now saying you have to grade niceness but after I have sprinted quicker than an asthmatic I would like a smile at least with my thank you.

Today the niceness was that very British of joining a queue that wasn't a queue behind some people then said people realising that there was a stream of people behind them . Then the the "oh we're not in the queue sorry " to which everyone replies " that's ok no worries " all this takes time no one cares we're all being nice .

Niceness it's the new endemic you know.

Niceness doesn't dictate you should comment on this either ... ;-)

Dear Cat

Dear Cat

I am starting to get a bit paranoid as every time I enter a room you walkout all nonchalantly as if I was a death eater from Harry Potter. Perhaps it was because I stood on your paw 3 weeks ago I'm not really sure or that I 'm constantly telling you off for hogging the duvet.

Perhaps it's the cat food you were all excited and very purry when I brought 2 boxes on special offer of brand X oh how happy you were chirping away in excitement at the first box . This was until the second box when a switch was flicked and you no longer liked that food , currently it's a Mexican stand off at feeding times. 

I will not bend , you will not win.

Cats don't give a flying wallaby.

Simply Roasted Carrots

All my son ever wants with his meal vegetable wise is sweetcorn , sweetcorn and yet more sweetcorn and I thought a change was order and plus there was no sweetcorn in the freezer. I think as a family we must purchase the worlds quota on sweetcorn I see yellow in my dreams. So I thought the humble carrot needed to be thrust into the limelight yes "come on down " I really do adopt the game show mentality when I am thinking of what to do with my fruit and vegetables asides sticking googly eyes on them.

Ingredients 

Carrots ( well there's a surprise) cut into batons.

A glug of olive oil 

Method 

Turn on the oven - no brainer 

And preheat to 180 c

Now some chefs will be telling you to coat the carrots with honey etc but you really don't have to. Also you can speed up the roasting process by either slightly cooking by whacking the carrot batons in the microwave for about  7 minutes or by a quick boil on the hob ( same timings )

Drain

Place in a oven proof dish

Glug some olive oil over it all and roast for about 20 minutes.

Upon The Autumn Light

Sometimes you just have to grab the Autumn light and seek the glow of the evening fall.

And see the tractors pull and plough.

And wish upon an Autumn sky "Oh please do be kind to be keep me from the dalliance of the modern life and pray to keep my soul a wondrous sprite "

Life is life the countryside is an an open book and you write you own adventures and seek your own truths.

The Digital Dance

I  think in all the blogging whirl I have forgotten my roots and the people I started with. I think that needs to change * why follow the herd. Just because I am no longer flavour of the month in 'some ' quarters. You can get sucked in and be the blogging bunny in the headlights. I have forgotten how I started but not why and you might think that the early posts I did have a naivety about them but you know what I think that was an innocence that was lost . You can be quite mournful of what you have lost ,as you do the digital dance and the hard cold fact is that it is a digital dance that can spiral out of control. This however doesn't have to have the alarm bells ringing you can bring yourself back on track that's what friends are for.


I am most glad of the fiends / friends ( I mean of course ) that I've got and the opportunities that have come my way . How refreshing it is to breath the clean air and realise where I can take my blog and more importantly myself.